The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-07-08

Legislature, the emergencies VI wal NV "a"
sion rebellion, pestilence or other public
disaster shall arise, and then not without
the concurrence of all the Cabinet, and OF
a majority of the whole Privy Council; and
the Minister of Finance shall render de-
tailed account of such expenditure to the
Legislature.
Article 16 No retrospective laws shall
ever be enacted.
Article II. The military shall always be
subject to the laws of the land; and no
soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered
in any house without the consent of the
owner; nor in time of war, but in man
ner to be prescribed by the Legislature.
Article 49, Every elector shall be priv
legged from arrest on election days, during
his attendance at election, and in going to
and returning therefrOm, except in case OF
treason, felony or breach of the peace.
Article 49, No elector shall be so obliged
to perform military duty, on the day OF
election, as to prevent his voting; except
in time of war or public danger.
Article 20. The Supreme Power of the
Kingdom in its exercise is divided into the
Executive, Legislative and Judiclali these
shall ALWAYS be preserved distinct, and no
Executive or judicial officer, or any con-
tractor or employee of the Government, or
any person in the receipt of salary or
emolument from the Government, shall
be eligible to election to the Legislature of
the Hawaiian Kingdom, or to hold the
position of an elective member of the same.
And no member of the Legislature shall,
during the time for which he is elected, be
appointed to any civil office under the
Government, except that of a member of
the Cabinet.
Article 81. The Government of this King
dom is that of Constitutional Monarchy
under His Majesty Kalakaua, his heirs
and successors.
Article %. The Crown is hereby perma-
nently confirmed to His Majesty Kalakaua,
and to the heirs of his body lawfully be-
gotten, and to their lawful descendants in
a direct line; failing whom, the Crown
shall descend to Her Royal Highness the
Princess Liliuokalani, and the heirs of her
body, lawfully begotten, and their lawful
descendants in a direct line. The success
sion shall be to the senior male child, and
to the heirs of his body; failing male
child the succession shall be TO the senior
female child, and to the heirs of her body.
In case there is no heir as above provided,
the successor shall be the person whom
the Sovereign shall appoint with the con-
sent of the Nob:es and publicly proclaim
during the Sovereign's life; but should
their be no such appointment and proclama-
ton, and the Throne should become va
cant, then the Cabinet, Immediately after
the occurring of such vacancy, shall cause
a meeting of the Legislature, who shall
elect by ballot some native Ali OF the
Kingdom as successor to the Throne; and
the successor so elected shall become
new STRIPS for a Royal Family; and the
succession from the Sovereign thus elected
shall be regulated by the same law as the
present Royal Family of H waii.
Article %. 1t shall not be lawful for any
member of the Royal Family of Hawaii
who may by law succeed to the Throne, to
contract marriage without the consent of
the reigning Sovereign. Every marriage
so contracted shall be void, and the person
so contracting a marriage may, by the
of the reigning Sovereign, be
declared to have forfeited his or her right
TO the Throne, and after such proclama-
ton the right of succession shall vest in
the next heir as though such offender were
dead.
Article "a. His Majesty Kalakaua will,
and his successors shall, take the following
oath: / solemnly swear in the presence of
Almighty God, to maintain the Constitu-
ton of the Kingdom whole and inviolate,
and to govern in conformity Herewith.
Article 25 No person shall ever sit upon
the Throne who has been convicted of
any infamous crime, or who is insane or
an idiot.
Article %. The King is the Commander
in-Chief of the army and navy, and of all
other military forces of the Kingdom, by
sea and land. But he shall never proclaim
war without the consent of the Legislature;
and no military or naval force shall be
except by the authority of the
Legislature.
Article 81. The King, by and with the
advice of his Privy Council and with the
of the Cabinet, has the power to
grant reprieves and pardons, after con-
viction, for all offenses, except in case of
Article g. The King convenes the Legis-
lature at the seat of Government, or at az diff
ferent place, if that should become insecure
from an enemy or any dangerous disorder,
and prorogues the same; and in any great
he may, with the advice of the
Privy Council, convene the Legislature in
session.
Article 90 The King has the power to
make treaties. Treaties involving changes
in the tariff or in any law of the Kingdom
shall be referred for approval to the Legis- !
ature. The King appoints Public Minis
5ers, who shall be commissioned, accred- |
ted and instructed agreeably to the usage I
and law of Nations
Article 80. 1t is the Kings prerogative
20 receive and acknowledge Public Minis
ers; to inform the Legislature by ROYAL
Message, from time to time, of the state of
he Kingdom; and to recommend to its
consideration such measures as he shall
Judge necessary ana expedient
Article 81. The person of the King is in
loiable and sacred. His Ministers are